Francine Prose One Hundred Years of Solitude’ convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. – Francine Prose Convinced Quotes Drop Quotes Forget Quotes Gabriel Quotes Garcia Quotes Graduate Quotes Harvard Quotes Marquez Quotes Phd Quotes Program Quotes Reminded Quotes School Quotes Solitude Quotes I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. Long before the idea of a writer’s conference was a glimmer in anyone’s eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.
Anita Sarkeesian There are people I’ve blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that. – Anita Sarkeesian
Philip Hammond Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country. – Philip Hammond
Derek Cianfrance I’m not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that’s probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies. – Derek Cianfrance
Mark Harmon I don’t care who’s No. 1 on the call sheet or how big my trailer is. I care about the work. I don’t care who gets the laughs. I just care that the laugh comes. – Mark Harmon
Kelly Wearstler Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum… they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment. – Kelly Wearstler
Rube Goldberg I didn’t write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. – Rube Goldberg
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